I'm Julie, and I live with my husband and three young daughters in New South Wales suburbia, Australia. This is the online journal I kept until recently, of how we are trying to live more simply & sustainably in suburbia.
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Come Mr Tally Man, tally me bananas...
Check it out people - our very first bunch of home grown bananas forming on the first tree we planted. Exciting!!
Cheers,
13 comments:
I am so jealous! I've been following your pictures for a long time but this one is just too much! You live in paradise! Ha! Bananas = Paradise. I know, strange formula!
OOOOhhh,
Congratulations, I imagine the kids are extremely excited.
Kind Regards
Belinda
That is so great! I would love to be able to have one of those in our yard, but the winter would probably kill it. I see some banana cream pies in the future :)
Hello becomingmore,
Seriously, I reckon being able to grow bananas will ensure I never move away from the coast :-)
Hi Belinda,
They will be more excited when they are edible I think, all the waiting is boring ;-)
Hi tahtimbo,
If they all ripen at once, it will be banana everything! LOL.
Cheers, Julie
I'm jealous too! The bush turkeys get all ours, just about that stage. Yours look so lovely and unmolested. Banana and tahini biscuits, banana cake, banana smoothies, dried banana....mmmm
Congratulations - oh what a feeling - home grown nanas!! We have a nana run on at the moment. Considering buying a dehydrator to make banana chips for the future. Sonya
Yes congrats on your bananas Julie! They're looking great! We're also very excited to be enjoying the first of our bananas - nothing best home grown bananas for flavour!
Ally
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How cool is that!
Hi Linda,
Well, I suspected we have a possum so I'm not sure how long they will stay unmolested! We're investigating bagging them.
Hi Sonya,
Oh the girls eat dried bananas as fast as they come out of the dehydrator! They're like lollies, so sweet but chewy, well worth getting a drier for.
Hey Ally,
I hope they taste as good as they look!
Hi Kez,
Tres cool ;-)
Cheers,
Julie
Wow I missed this one, they look great.
We have some bananas at the Tea Gardens house, cant wait to try them. I read somewhere recently that if you cut the flower (in half?) the bananas will get longer. Not sure whether it meant individual fruit or the whole bunch. Or could be a wives tale?
Pretty frickin' awesome, Julie! Bananas have been crossed off our shopping list because of how far they travel to reach us. But if we could grow them in our backyard, we'd be eating bananas foster for breakfast!
Wow! How fun!
Hi Deb,
Yes, I read in a GA article that you cut the flower off about 4 inches from the last hand, to make the plant put all it's energy into the bananas so they are bigger. The flower is edible too so I am looking forward to trying it out!
Hi Kate,
As much as I miss stonefruits, having bananas in growing the backyard is pretty cool :-)
Hi Laryssa,
Yes, it is!
Cheers, Julie
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